[jdefr89]

He probably isn’t that bad. He just has imposter syndrome most likely… He is assuming people sit down and write things like web browsers in a single, linear sitting. You don’t write any nontrivial software easily if you’re doing something new. The decisions you need to make when developing real software or systems are numerous. Having been in the industry for a very long time and having worked with arguably some of the smartest people in the world, no one lives up the the romanticized “super cider genius” that solves all problems effortlessly in their first go. I am currently a researcher at MIT. I work with some of the most brilliant people out there and you’d be surprised what “simple” things or concepts they struggle with… Everything is simple when you know the answer, but try devising the answer to a truly original problem that hasn’t been breached yet and see how far you get. Even simple sorting algorithms, and basic data structures, were the product of research that took a long time. People didn’t just sit down one night and invent the quick sort in one go….

[yakshaving_jgt]

> He is assuming people sit down and write things like web browsers in a single, linear sitting

I can't imagine how someone with 10 years of programming experience would make this assumption.